Balance Quote by Richard Eyre

Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.

— Theodore Dalrymple

“It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.”

— Aaron B. Powell

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

— William Landay

Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to…

— Terry McMillan

“If you build a society in which children honor their parents, your society will long survive. And the corollary is: A society in which…

— Dennis Prager

We can never repay our parents, for the values they instill in us give us the personality that forms our identity. It is through…

— Anonymous

“If you build a society in which children honor their parents, your society will long survive. And the corollary is: a society in which…

— Dennis Prager

When we agree to be parents, we have to accept the good and the bad.

— Hilaria Baldwin

“Parents with dependents are somehow thought to count for more. If, for example, there is some scarce resource—a donor kidney perhaps—and of the two…

— David Benatar

“No matter how much and how often - 'things' will never compensate for loss or absence...no matter how guilty a parent feels.”

— T.F. Hodge

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

— Peter Shaffer

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our…

— Lisa Unger